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Understanding 9/11The BeOS Bible (1999)
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- 1999-04-22
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- beos, be inc, apple, macintosh, mac, mac os, macos, unix, posix, operating systems, Jean-Louis Gassée, computer science, interviews, technology, 1990s
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- English
Fast, elegant, and powerful, the Be operating system, like Linux, delivers workstation power on inexpensive desktop hardware. The BeOS Bible is the definitive guide to this new OS and the first book on Be written with non-programmers in mind. Whether you're new to the BeOS or have been using this exciting operating system since the beginning, you'll want this comprehensive reference at your side. Written especially for power users and creative professionals working with hi-res video, graphics, and audio files, The BeOS Bible covers it all, from starting up to running servers. The expert authors, all intimately involved with Be, guide you through the details with instructive explanations and graphics. In its pages, you'll find:
- In-depth, detailed coverage of every feature of the BeOS--from secrets of the terminal to application shortcuts to advanced graphics, sound, and database applications
- Interviews with Be engineers and founders, including Jean-Louis Gassée, president and CEO of Be, Inc., that provide fascinating insight into this innovative OS
- Hundreds of tips and techniques for getting the most out of the BeOS and its applications
The BeOS Bible covers through release 4 (R4) on both the Intel and PowerPC platforms, and includes free online updates on the companion Web site: http://birdhouse.org/beos/bible/welcome.html
ISBN: 0201353776 (ISBN13: 9780201353778)
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: The MediaOS - 1
The Fed-Up, the Disenfranchised, and the Futurists - 3
The Fed-Up - 3
The Disenfranchised - 4
The Futurists - 5
Unchain My Hardware - 5
BeOS as a General-Purpose System - 6
The Buzzword-Enabled Operating System - 8
The Rise of the Multi-Boot Environment - 8
Preemptive Multitasking - 9
Pervasive Multithreading - 10
64-Bit, Multithreaded, Fully Journaled Filesystem - 11
How Big Was That File Again? - 13
Client/Server Architecture - 15
Data Interchange and Scripting - 17
Database-Like Filesystem - 19
Direct Graphics Access - 19
Dynamically Loadable Device Drivers - 20
Object Orientation - 21
POSIX Compliance - 22
How OOP Works - 22
BeOS Ain't Unix - 23
Processor Agnosticism and Portability - 24
PowerPC versus Intel - 25
Protected Memory - 26
Symmetric Multiprocessing - 27
Sense, Sensibility, and Multiple Processors - 27
Why the Upper Limit? - 28
The History of Be, Inc. - 29
The Last Supper: Gassée Exits Apple - 29
The Early Days: Be Builds a Team - 30
The Birth of BeOS - 31
Offsite on the Cheap: The Hike to the Sea - 32
Five Chips Are Better than One: The First BeBox - 33
The Demise of the Hobbit: Be's Shift to PowerPC - 33
Starting Over - 34
Public Exposure: Agenda 95 - 35
Crossing the Frontier: Be Ports Its OS to the Mac - 36
Dancing with the Devil: Negotiations with Apple - 38
Flying Solo: Be Returns to Plan A - 39
Interview: Jean-Louis Gassée - 40
Chapter 2: Meet the System - 53
User Interface Conventions - 54
Notes on Keyboard and Mouse Usage - 55
A Tour of BeOS - 60
Desktop - 60
The Easter Eggs - 72
User Interface Basics - 78
Workspaces - 85
The Bundled Apps - 89
BeIDE - 90
BeMail - 90
CD Player - 90
Clock - 93
DiskProbe - 94
Expander - 98
Build Your Own Icon Library - 103
Installer - 104
Magnify - 104
MIDI - 106
MIDI Crash Course - 107
MiniPlayer - 108
NetPositive - 108
People - 109
PlaySound - 111
PoorMan - 111
Pulse - 112
Blinky Lights in Memoriam - 113
ROMUpdater-BeBox Owners Only - 114
SCSIProbe - 114
SerialConnect - 115
ShowImage - 116
SimpleMIDI - 118
SoftwareValet - 118
StyledEdit - 119
A Crash Course in Attributes - 122
The Terminal - 123
The Demo Apps - 124
3dmov - 124
BeBounce - 126
BeLogo - 127
Calah - 127
Container - 128
Dominos - 129
Flight - 129
Font Demo - 130
GL Teapot - 132
Kaleidoscope - 133
Life - 134
Mandelbrot - 135
What Is Life? - 135
Minesweeper - 136
Optional Media - 137
Experimental - 138
GNU - 138
Define "Supported" - 138
goodies - 139
images - 139
MIDI - 140
movies - 140
sample code - 140
sound - 141
xmaps - 141
Interview: Peter Potrebic - 142
Chapter 3: Installation?147
Pre-Installation Considerations - 148
Where to Get BeOS - 148
Compatibility - 149
Hardware Requirements - 151
International Versions - 153
Basic Installation - 154
Basic Installation - 154
Installing BeOS Upgrades - 161
Other Configurations - 162
Working with Partitions - 164
Partition History - 164
Discovering Your Partition Types - 165
Other Multi-Boot Options - 166
OS-Provided Boot Managers - 166
Third-Party Boot Managers - 168
Boot Glitches - 168
Install Operating Systems in Optimal Order - 169
Installing BeOS on PowerPC Hardware - 170
Where to Get BeOS - 170
Mac Hardware Requirements - 170
Basic Installation on PowerPC Hardware - 172
Partitioning Your Mac Drive - 172
Easy Installation - 174
Booting the BeOS - 176
Interview: Bob Herold - 178
Chapter 4: Get Online Fast - 185
The BeOS Advantage - 186
The Three-Minute Web Connection - 188
Configuring Internet Services - 190
Dial-Up Networking - 190
DNS Explained - 192
Adding Modems Manually - 194
About CHAP and PAP - 198
About Framing - 198
Network Interface Cards - 199
Supported Network Cards - 200
Network Setup on a Mac - 201
Restart Networking - 201
Email - 202
Configuring Email Preferences - 202
The SMTP Dilemma - 203
Bundled Internet Apps - 205
NetPositive - 205
NetPositive's Secret Past - 206
Error Message Haiku - 208
Displaying Non-English Web Sites - 211
Accessing Super-Secret Settings - 212
Working with Bookmarks - 214
On Strong Encryption - 214
BeMail - 219
What about Navigator? - 219
BeMail and Filters - 226
Using FTP - 228
Real Men Use the Terminal - 228
Using Telnet - 231
Using ping - 233
Interpreting Round-Trip Times - 234
Stay Awake - 235
Chapter 5: Files and the Tracker - 237
A Closer Look at the Tracker - 238
Working with Files and Folders - 239
Context Menus - 249
The "Open With" Relationship - 250
Desktop and Trash: More than Meets the Eye - 252
Add-Ons - 253
Attributes - 255
What's in a File's Attributes? - 255
Attributes and the Tracker - 256
Creating Custom Attributes - 257
Searching on Custom Attributes - 259
Viewing Extra Attributes - 260
The Filetyping Problem - 262
Guilt by Association - 263
The Filetyping Solution: MIME - 265
The Format of a MIME Type - 267
Meet the Registrar - 268
Assigning MIME Types: The Rules of Engagement - 269
Changing FileTypes-Think Globally ... - 271
The Rules of Inheritance - 271
Meet the FileTypes Database - 272
Changing the Preferred Application - 273
Changing Icons - 273
Adding New Filetypes - 275
Removing FileTypes - 276
Attributes - 277
Extensions - 277
Invasion of the Meta-MIME - 277
Act Locally - 278
The FileType Panel for Individual Files - 278
FileType Settings for Applications - 279
Change Batches of Files - 280
Dealing with Archives - 282
Decompressing Archives - 282
Compression Basics - 283
Unzipping from the Terminal - 284
Compressing Files with zip - 286
Growing a zip Archive - 289
tar and gzip - 290
Stick with Zip - 291
SoftwareValet Package Files - 292
Zipping Files on the Mac - 292
BFS: The Be Filesystem - 293
Journaling - 294
Multithreading - 296
Attributes - 296
Node Monitors - 297
Disk Utilities for BeOS - 298
Sixty-Four Bit Storage System - 299
Speed - 299
Working with Other Filesystems - 300
Mounting Alien Filesystems - 301
Custom Mount Control - 302
Unmounting Partitions - 302
Natively Supported Filesystems - 303
Optional Filesystem Support - 304
CD-ROM Formats - 304
The Directory Structure - 305
User-Level and System-Level Directories - 305
What Lives Where on Your Boot Drive - 306
Keeping the System Safe and Sane - 306
User-Level Directories - 307
Hidden Directories - 313
Digging into /dev/disk - 316
System-Level Directories - 319
Add-Ons versus Drivers - 327
Interview: Pavel Cisler - 330
Chapter 6: The Terminal - 335
Critical bash for BeOS - 336
The Purpose of This Chapter - 338
About Open-Source Tools - 338
Using the Terminal Application - 339
The Terminal Application Window - 339
Basic bash - 341
Navigation and File Management - 341
Change Your Prompt - 342
Quoting and Escaping - 343
Standard In, Standard Out - 351
Basic Shell Syntax - 355
Terminal/Tracker Integration - 355
Redirection - 358
History Lesson - 360
Tab Completion - 360
Finding Stuff - 362
Tracker Grep - 365
Setting Permissions - 366
The Rule of Sevens - 368
Text Processing - 369
Crunching Numbers - 371
GeekGadgets - 372
Quick Access to Long Commands - 376
Using Shell Commands from the GUI - 380
Communing with the Shell - 381
Who the Hell Is Baron, and Why Does He Own My Files? - 382
Tweaking Your Path - 383
UserSetupEnvironment versus .profile - 384
Assign the Results of a Command to a Variable - 385
Miscellany - 386
Why Is So Much Memory Being Used? - 389
Fun with Alert Boxes - 392
Learning More - 393
Interview: Cyril Meurillon - 395
Chapter 7: Working with Queries - 401
Data Mining Your Hard Drive - 402
Database 101 - 402
The Open-Minded Data Format - 403
Attributes and MIME Types - 405
Digging for Gold - 405
Constructing Queries - 407
All Files and Folders versus Individual Filetypes - 409
Unlisted Filetypes - 410
Use Plain English - 413
Using Saved Queries - 414
Querying Custom Attributes - 414
Do "Real" File Locations Matter Anymore? - 415
Case Study: Queries and BeMail - 416
Is the Be Filesystem a "True" Database? - 416
Quick Glimpses - 417
Scripting BeMail Queries - 419
Sample Queries - 420
Query by Formula - 422
Starter Formulas - 423
Why the Double Equal Signs? - 424
Running Queries from the Terminal - 428
Interview: George Hoffman - 430
Chapter 8: Networking - 435
Networking Concepts-Beyond PPP - 436
Networking from 20,000 Feet - 436
How TCP/IP Works - 438
BeOS's Home-Brewed TCP/IP Stack - 438
LANs versus WANs - 441
Kernel Space versus User Space - 443
Building a Network - 444
Making the Connection - 444
Test Your Connection - 450
Moving Files via FTP - 451
GUI versus CLI - 451
Setting Up the Server - 452
Logging In - 453
Command-Line FTP - 454
Other File-Sharing and Transfer Methods - 455
Common Internet Filesystem (CIFS) - 455
NFS - 457
AppleTalk - 457
The Five-Minute Web Server - 458
Who Needs a Personal Server? - 458
What Do You Mean, "Web Server"? - 459
Hosting an Actual Domain - 461
Publishing with PoorMan - 462
Case-Sensitivity Issues - 463
Got Bandwidth? - 470
Remote Control - 471
Telnet to Your BeOS Machine - 471
Telnetting from Other Operating Systems - 472
Accessing Other Operating Systems Remotely - 474
Advanced Connectivity - 476
Multiple Network Configurations - 476
Using DHCP - 478
Editing Network Preferences Manually - 478
Proxies, IP Forwarding, and Masquerades - 479
DNS versus the hosts File - 481
Serial/Terminal Communications - 486
What Is SerialConnect? - 486
Customizing Connections with Dial-o-Rama - 487
Security - 488
Is BeOS Secure? - 488
Interview: Russ McMahon - 491
Chapter 9: Preferences and Customization - 497
Preferences - 498
Preferences-or Links to Preferences? - 499
Audio - 499
Backgrounds - 502
ScreenSaver - 504
Boot - 506
Data Translations - 507
Devices - 509
Dial-Up Networking - 513
DriveSetup - 513
MacOS Trying to Mount BeOS Partitions - 516
Disk Mount Settings - 517
E-mail - 524
FileTypes - 525
Fonts - 526
Fontology - 528
Bitstream and Be - 530
Japanese - 531
Baka Baka Quiz Show - 533
Using the Japanese Input Method: A Brief Tutorial - 534
About Japanese Writing Systems - 536
Joysticks - 536
Keyboard - 538
Keymap - 538
Menu - 543
About the Dvorak Keymap - 543
Mouse - 545
Network - 547
Printers - 547
Screen - 549
Who's That in the Print Setup Dialog? - 549
Why Some Settings Are Grayed Out - 553
ScrollBar - 554
Sounds - 554
Time - 555
Is BeOS Year 2000-Compliant? - 556
Atomic Time - 556
Video - 557
Virtual Memory - 559
Workspaces - 560
Customization - 560
Scripts - 560
The Launch Alternative - 563
About the Shutdown Scripts - 565
Miscellaneous Settings Files - 568
Customizing Icons - 571
Why Some FileType Dialogs Have Blank Icon Wells - 572
Creating BeOS Icons in Photoshop and Other Imaging Applications - 572
Restoring System Filetypes and Icons - 573
Interview: Hiroshi Lockheimer - 574
Chapter 10: System Tools and Utilities - 577
Installers - 578
SoftwareValet - 578
Fixing Corrupt Package Files - 580
OmicronSoft's EasyInstall/EasyDeinstall - 585
What about Orphans? - 586
Tracker Add-Ons - 587
System-Provided Add-Ons - 588
Third-Party Add-Ons - 589
Backup Tools - 591
Bald Mountain's BeB - 591
OmicronSoft Restorer - 594
Benchmarking - 596
OmicronSoft's BeRometer - 596
Launchers - 598
DeposIt - 598
Hit&Run - 600
System Monitors - 601
SysR - 601
freeSpace - 603
What's Your Uptime? - 603
Interview: Dominic Giampaolo - 605
Chapter 11: Network Applications - 613
Email Clients - 614
Adamation's Adam - 614
BeatWare Mail-It - 619
Getting Started with Mail-It - 619
OmicronSoft Mail Clique - 625
Postmaster - 627
FTP Clients - 632
BeatWare's Get-It - 632
NetPenguin - 636
Passive Connections - 636
Usenet News Clients - 638
BeInformed - 638
Usenet in a Nutshell - 639
Usenet Access from the Terminal - 642
IRC Clients - 643
IRC 101 - 643
Felix - 644
Web Servers - 647
What about Web Browsers? - 647
Apache - 648
Troubleshooting Apache - 650
diner - 651
Zorro - 653
FTP Servers - 654
campus - 654
Miscellaneous Tools and Utilities - 656
ANewsWire - 656
Email Servers - 656
Stamina and Charisma - 657
BeCQ - 658
Chapter 12: Productivity Applications - 659
AbiSoft's BePlan - 661
Using BePlan - 661
Features - 662
BeatWare's Be Basics - 663
The Two Applications You Need Every Day - 663
Getting Started with Writer - 664
Getting Started with Sum-It - 665
Getting the Most out of Be Basics - 666
Gobe Productive - 668
Integrated Productivity - 668
Working with "Environments" - 668
Digging into the Interface - 670
Spreadsheets - 674
Graphics - 674
Image Processing - 676
Presentations - 677
Maarten Hekkelman's Pe - 678
The Programmer's Editor - 678
Using Pe - 678
Word Processors versus Text Editors - 678
Preferences - 682
File Options - 686
Building Web Sites with Pe - 687
About Document Encoding - 687
Brian Tietz's Scheduler - 689
Creating Events - 689
What About Cron? - 691
Working Software's Spellswell and QLAB - 692
Spellswell - 693
QuickLetter Address Book (QLAB) - 694
Chapter 13: Graphics Applications - 697
Image Manipulation and Paint Programs - 698
ArtPaint - 698
What about Photoshop? - 699
About the Alpha Channel - 701
Sum Software's Becasso - 706
Orthogonal? - 707
Boo - 710
BeatWare's e-Picture - 712
Other Image Editors - 716
About BeatWare's FreeStyle UI - 716
Modeling and Raytracing - 717
MAXON's CINEMA 4D XL V5.25 - 717
Persistence of Vision (POV-Ray) - 720
Graphics Utilities - 725
Adamation's ImageElements - 725
NetPBM - 730
roDesign's roColour - 732
Thumbnail - 734
Interview: Pierre Raynaud-Richard - 737
Chapter 14: Media Applications - 743
Audio Applications - 744
Adamation's AudioElements - 744
BamBam - 747
FinalScratch - 751
MusicWeaver - 751
Objekt's ObjektSynth - 755
SoundPlay - 757
Q - 762
Nanodot - 763
Rack Om 1.0 - 764
The Media Art of Douglas Irving Repetto - 766
Coming Soon - 768
Video Applications - 769
Adamation's personalStudio and studioA - 769
Tebo Software's Grabbo - 773
Coming Soon - 776
Video Capture and Other Goodies - 776
Interview: Jon Watte - 778
Chapter 15: Other Goodies - 781
The Kitchen Sink - 782
Analog - 782
Behaviour - 786
BeStripper and Other Text Converters - 787
Other Text-Format Converters - 788
Ghostscript (PostScript and PDF Viewer) - 789
liblayout and PrefServer - 791
Perl - 792
Python - 793
Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) - 795
RC5DES - 796
In Search of Heavenly Bodies - 797
X-Windows Server - 798
Interview: Tim Martin - 800
Chapter 16: Troubleshooting and Maintenance - 807
General Troubleshooting - 808
Narrow It Down - 808
Looking for Help - 811
Where to Go for Help - 815
Boot Problems - 817
The Chicken and Egg Video Dilemma - 817
Unsupported and Misconfigured Hardware - 818
The IRQ Dilemma - 819
Unsupported Hardware - 821
Inablity to Find the Boot Partition - 822
Building a Boot Floppy - 822
Trapping Debug Information - 825
The Application Debugger - 825
Hardware Debug Output - 826
Application Problems - 827
Walk of the Undead (Applications That Refuse to Die) - 827
Recover Application Settings - 829
Video Problems - 830
Screen Size Problems - 831
BeOS Appears in Grayscale - 832
Sound Problems - 833
No Sound at All - 833
No Sound from Specific Applications - 834
Sound Is Too Quiet - 834
Network Problems - 835
Keeping Up with Changing Hardware - 835
PPP Problems - 836
Network Interface Card Problems - 838
Email Problems - 839
Web Problems - 840
Telnet Problems - 840
Disk Problems - 841
Backups and BeOS - 841
Mouse Problems - 844
x86 Mouse Problems - 844
Macintosh Mouse Problems - 844
Disaster Recovery - 845
Bypassing the Bootloader - 846
Bypassing the Bootloader and the Hard Disk - 847
Emergency-Booting BeOS on the Mac - 848
Recovering Your Data - 849
Tracker, Deskbar, and Replicant Problems - 852
Killing and Restarting the Tracker - 852
Deskbar Problems - 853
When Replicants Go Bad - 853
Error Messages - 855
Crashing Messages - 855
Non-Crashing Messages - 855
Appendices - 861
Appendix A: Keyboard Equivalencies and Shortcuts - 862
Standard Application Shortcuts - 862
Keyboard Shortcuts in the Tracker - 863
Navigation - 865
Appendix B: Date/Time Formats Recognized by the Query Engine - 867
Appendix C: Programming BeOS - 869
Compiling Source Code - 869
Getting Started with BeOS Programming - 872
Developers' Programs - 873
Further Reference - 873
Appendix D: More Information on BeOS - 874
Books - 874
Mailing List - 874
Usenet - 874
Web Sites - 875
Primitive Volcanic Gods Choose BeOS over Windows - 876
Glossary - 879
Index - 889
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